{"id":185,"date":"2012-03-28T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/05\/27\/bipolar-medication-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:17","slug":"i-left-my-bipolar-meds-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/i-left-my-bipolar-meds-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"I Left My Bipolar Meds at Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here is a note from a reader: Roselyn<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Julie, I’ve been a fan of the blog and your books for years. I really follow what you suggest and it has made a huge difference. I think you will find the following story interesting as it is an example of when I didn’t follow what you suggested- and things didn’t go well!<\/p>\n

Like you, I take Lamictal. \u00a0It works very well for me- but it\u2019s always a balance in terms of dosage. I actually did something really stupid last weekend. I went out of town to speak to a NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) group and forgot to take my Lamictal!<\/p>\n

I was freaked out about it- but I thought that missing a few days shouldn\u2019t be too much of a problem! I didn’t\u00a0think of calling my doctor because I convinced\u00a0myself things would be just fine.<\/p>\n

Wrong!<\/p>\n

The withdrawal symptoms started on the way home \u2013\u00a0 pain in my legs, then my arms, neck twitching and pretty soon, all over body twitching! These are strong drugs.<\/p>\n

When I finally realized what was going on- I truly had no idea what it was as it came on slowly- my mom, who was driving said, \u201cI have some Lamical in my purse.\u201d She takes it for depression and it works well for her. So thank heavens she had some.<\/p>\n

It never entered my mind to ask if she had any- or if someone in my audience had a spare!\u00a0 I was at a mental health conference! I am sure someone could have spared a few days of Lamictal. I have extra in my car like you suggest, but we ended up taking my mother\u2019s car- I also usually have extras in my purse and I left the extras at home! ! This was one of those occasions when circumstances all worked against me and I didn\u2019t make sure I was ok.<\/p>\n

I was just stupid. It messed up my system and then I managed to miss an evening dose a few days after the trip just from the whole after conference blahs thing! One week later, I\u2019m still having problems. You should just see my head twitching as I write this! (The anxiety is pretty bad as well.)
\nI’m back on a full dose, so I am sure I will be fine. But you are right. We have to make sure we always have our meds with us – in many locations!<\/p>\n

Roselyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here is a note from a reader: Roselyn<\/p>\n

Julie, I’ve been a fan of the blog and your books for years. I really follow what you suggest and it has made a huge difference. I think you will find the following story interesting as it is an example of when I didn’t follow what you suggested- and things didn’t go well!<\/p>\n

Like you, I take Lamictal. It works very well for me- but it\u2019s always a balance in terms of dosage. I actually did something really stupid last weekend. I went out of town to speak to a NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) group and forgot to take my Lamictal!<\/p>\n

I was freaked out about it- but I thought that missing a few days shouldn\u2019t be too much of [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11576,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}